Mother Assumpta on EWTN Live!

[AlterDominicus]

I am soooooooo watching this, she's my future superior! As well as many others, she is so awesome, her Keynote Address if you watched EWTN 25th Anniversary was soooo awesome. They relationship between her and Mother Angelica is phenomenal. Anyway...the whole point is, WHO is watching this tonight other then me?

[TheresaMF]

I'm watching, but I don't see Mother Assumpta. Just three nice sisters. I'll have to watch the first half later, as I missed it. Pretty fascinating stuff about evangelizing homes through the classroom.

[passionheart]

[quote name='TheresaMF' post='1010041' date='Jun 21 2006, 07:30 PM']
I'm watching, but I don't see Mother Assumpta. Just three nice sisters. I'll have to watch the first half later, as I missed it. Pretty fascinating stuff about evangelizing homes through the classroom.
[/quote]

Just think about my friend, if you enter in Marbury then you will be evangelizing behind bars...so to speak

[Sixtina87]

Is there an encore show comming on??? I should watch it since she is my Superior's Blood Sister!!!! LOL!!!

For those who are entering with the SMME's we going to be Sisters together in away...think about that!!!!

[quote name='passionheart' post='1010118' date='Jun 21 2006, 08:40 PM']
Just think about my friend, if you enter in Marbury then you will be evangelizing behind bars...so to speak
[/quote]

You make it sound as if she is in JAIL. LOL!!!!! Thats what it sounded like to me, and i am discerning. However I know what you meant anyways!!!

Edited June 22, 2006 by Sixtina87

[TheresaMF]

[quote]Just think about my friend, if you enter in Marbury then you will be evangelizing behind bars...so to speak upsidedown.[/quote]
LOL! I know. It's the evangelizing that gets me down. I need someone to speak inspiringly about that again. (Which would be preaching, yes?) Because it is PREACHING that makes me excited! Preaching is so awesome! Preaching! Preaching the Word! Preaching the Gospel!

I was just reading [i]Christ, the Ideal of the Monk[/i] by Dom Marmion, OSB. What he says about God's plan to make a new creation through Christ, incorporating all of us into His Mystical Body through the sacraments and the Holy Spirit, how conformity to Christ IS spiritual perfection--WOW! (Ok, so that [i]is[/i] exciting.) But I just can't see it as all about the perfection of my soul. I know it's not--it's all about God's glory, and my salvation and sanctification are just more proximate goals on that path to glorifying God.

However, being able to share the fruits of that contemplation with others?? YES. YESYESYES. So Dom Marmion starts talking about Preaching. Paraphrase: "Oh yes, Christ sent the apostles to preach, and through their preaching to renew the face of the earth, since Christ will speak through them and they will speak the words of Christ." And I'm there at my desk doing a little victory dance for the Order of Preachers.

Now, I know the cloistered nuns preach too, in a different way--and their lives bear fruit, lots of it, you just don't see it. It's real fruit, but the connection is a hidden spiritual connection known only to God and probably Our Lady.

So keep me in your prayers, because Marbury is where God led me, and I just need to be really docile and discerning and open, to drop all prejudices and opinions I have an just follow His lead wherever.

(Also that reminds me: one of the nuns said her little nephew came and visited the monastery, then went back and told his class at school, "I visited my aunt behind the Iron Curtain!")

[quote]Is there an encore show comming on???[/quote]
I don't know, but they should have it in the Audio Library soon. Just search for EWTN Live in the Audio Library--I think it'll be the first program on the list, as soon as they add it.

[AlterDominicus]

[quote name='Sixtina87' post='1010126' date='Jun 21 2006, 09:09 PM']
Is there an encore show comming on??? I should watch it since she is my Superior's Blood Sister!!!! LOL!!!

For those who are entering with the SMME's we going to be Sisters together in away...think about that!!!!
You make it sound as if she is in JAIL. LOL!!!!! Thats what it sounded like to me, and i am discerning. However I know what you meant anyways!!!
[/quote]

You are sooooooo right, there is an encore coming on in an hour central time. 12. YAY. I am re-watching it.

You are right about being family together that is soo cool.

[Sixtina87]

[quote name='AlterDominicus' post='1010156' date='Jun 21 2006, 10:01 PM']
You are sooooooo right, there is an encore coming on in an hour central time. 12. YAY. I am re-watching it.

You are right about being family together that is soo cool.
[/quote]

I was just thinking, I wonder if she is staying with the SSEW.....I'm sure she would see her Sister!!!

what was it about anyways???


is there another encore show tomorrow???

[alicemary]

Dominicans are known as the Order of Preachers...if you become a Dominican you will be a preacher.Just as the dear Little Flower St. Therese was the greatest missionary, and she was behind bars, so shall you be a great preacher even though cloistered.

[AlterDominicus]

Dominicans are awesome, seriously when I enter SMME, I will never regret choosing the Dominican Order, and actually thats just me and my obsessive love for Saint Dominic.

EDIT: Not that I would regret it anyway if I entered a different community. In the OP order.

Edited June 22, 2006 by AlterDominicus

[benedictaj]

[quote name='TheresaMF' post='1010130' date='Jun 22 2006, 02:21 PM']
LOL! I know. It's the evangelizing that gets me down. I need someone to speak inspiringly about that again. (Which would be preaching, yes?) Because it is PREACHING that makes me excited! Preaching is so awesome! Preaching! Preaching the Word! Preaching the Gospel!

I was just reading [i]Christ, the Ideal of the Monk[/i] by Dom Marmion, OSB. What he says about God's plan to make a new creation through Christ, incorporating all of us into His Mystical Body through the sacraments and the Holy Spirit, how conformity to Christ IS spiritual perfection--WOW! (Ok, so that [i]is[/i] exciting.) But I just can't see it as all about the perfection of my soul. I know it's not--it's all about God's glory, and my salvation and sanctification are just more proximate goals on that path to glorifying God.

However, being able to share the fruits of that contemplation with others?? YES. YESYESYES. So Dom Marmion starts talking about Preaching. Paraphrase: "Oh yes, Christ sent the apostles to preach, and through their preaching to renew the face of the earth, since Christ will speak through them and they will speak the words of Christ." And I'm there at my desk doing a little victory dance for the Order of Preachers.

Now, I know the cloistered nuns preach too, in a different way--and their lives bear fruit, lots of it, you just don't see it. It's real fruit, but the connection is a hidden spiritual connection known only to God and probably Our Lady.

So keep me in your prayers, because Marbury is where God led me, and I just need to be really docile and discerning and open, to drop all prejudices and opinions I have an just follow His lead wherever.

[/quote]
You have such good posts Theresa! And of course I will keep you in my prayers!!

[Sixtina87]

hey the SMME were on EWTN again, they attended mass this morning there!!!!

I'm watching the encore of LOTR!!!!!!!!!!!

[TheresaMF]

It is so weird to be in a world where LOTR means Life on the Rock, not Lord of the Rings. *shakes head clear*

Thanks for your support, memtherose and AliceMary! I really appreciate it. God bless you.

Another thing Dom Marmion talks about is humility and obedience. And love. It all comes down to love. The monk must [i]love [/i]the abbot; this love shows itself in a [i]docile spirit[/i], which is impossible without [i]humility[/i]; and [i]obedience [/i]is the visible proof.

The untold value of docility and humility--! It's like a bucket travelling on a journey to be filled by the King. On the way, however, it passes the seashore, and finds an amazing conch shell that is too perfect to pass up. Also some sand and a crab claw. Then it goes through the forest and many leaves and pine cones fall into it. Etc. By the time it gets to the Palace, how can it receive anything from the King? "I have to have [i]that [/i]gift--only that will fit in the space I have left." But the King wanted to give it a more glorious treasure.

Can the bucket rid itself of the encrustations?

No. But the King can. As long as the bucket lets Him.

(Woah! Got a little carried away there. But it's a helpful image.)

[FutureSoror]

Yes, it is. And I know what you mean about LOTR And I love this:
[quote]Another thing Dom Marmion talks about is humility and obedience. And love. It all comes down to love. The monk must love the abbot; this love shows itself in a docile spirit, which is impossible without humility; and obedience is the visible proof.
[/quote]

[melikalani]

WOW!

[url="http://catholiceducation.org/articles/catholic_stories/cs0172.htm"]http://catholiceducation.org/articles/cath...ries/cs0172.htm[/url]

[quote]1400 Percent Growth of Dominican Sisters
You have to drive slowly along the dirt road or you will miss the old-style country mailbox and red barn marking the driveway of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

A right turn up the driveway leads to a bundle of red-bricked, copper-roofed buildings topped with a dome and bell-tower reminiscent of a small Italian city. Under the dome sits one of the loveliest chapels to be found anywhere.

Dedicated the previous day (the chapel was brilliantly designed by Gus Pappas, a Greek orthodox architect) to my eyes and ears, the chapel succeeded in what chapels are meant to do — bring a bit of heaven to earth and inspire prayer in those who enter there.

The Sisters were celebrating a Mass of Thanksgiving, giving thanks for those who provided the resources for the buildings, not only the chapel, but also the adjacent structures. After my visit there, I found myself giving thanks for this remarkable flowering of women's religious life. (The other equally dynamic community of women's religious I've seen for myself is the Dominican Sisters in Nashville, Tennessee.)

The last time I visited the Sisters was nine years ago, the year of their founding. They were living, all four of them, in a ranch-style home converted for their use near Domino Farms, then the command center for the many apostolates funded by Tom Monaghan.

Founded by Cardinal O'Connor, invited to Michigan by Bishop Mengeling, and funded initially by Monaghan, the Dominican Sisters now number 59, a growth rate of 1400 percent. They are expected to be 70 in all by 2007. Sr. Joseph Andrew, speaking at the luncheon afterward, remarked that, "We are growing so fast we cannot assume a roof over our heads." She added that this was a "good problem" to have.

The average age of the professed Sisters is 28, and the average age of those in the novitiate is 24. Astoundingly, 173 young women attended their vocations retreat in February of this year. I'm sure I wasn't the only person in the room who compared this community to all of the religious orders that are dying because of a lack of vocations.

Mother Assumpta Long, the driving force behind the community, has a simple explanation for their success: "It all begins in the chapel. If it doesn't happen there, it's not going to happen. The most important thing is our religious life."

The Sisters are trained to be teachers. They already run two schools in Ann Arbor, but soon they will be sending two groups of four Sisters each to Hilton Head, SC and Phoenix, AR at the request of Bishops Baker and Olmstead.

The chapel's seating consists mainly of stalls, 87 of them, so you feel like a monk or nun of old, as you participate in the community's worship. Though the chapel's acoustics are rich, the singing of the sisters never lost its clarity. The words from Psalm 42 set among the four harmonic lines of Palestrina's most beautiful work, "Sicut Cervus," were easily heard. (The sisters sing so well they should be recorded.) Sr. Philip John, it should be noted, plays a very mean trumpet, and Sr. Maria Caritas an exceptionally sweet violin.

The Sisters receive a steady stream of requests from across the country for teachers. As they prepare to send their first groups to posts outside the Motherhouse in Ann Arbor, the Sisters are aware they have reached a milestone, in only nine short years.

The growth, vitality, and good work of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, embodies the ongoing revival of the Catholic faith in the U.S. since the election of John Paul II in 1978.

For more information you can reach the Sisters by email at info@sistersofmary.org, or go to their website, [url="http://www.sistersofmary.org"]www.sistersofmary.org[/url]. See their vocations page here which includes short reflections from each of the women now in formation.[/quote]

What a truly blessed community!

[AlterDominicus]

WOAH!!!!!!!! Waittttt aaaaa minute!!!! Did that article just say Sister Maria Caritas????????????? Annie! You never told me you played the violin! Now I have a feeling of what I may end up doing entering SMME. Oh Annie! When is your home visit!!!!!!! I MISS YOU!